Forthcoming Events
October 2011
Graduate Research & Innovation Fund
A call for a new round of the Graduate Research & Innovation Fund has been announced. For more information on this, eligible students should go to http://www.ucd.ie/humansciences/graduateschool/graduateresearchinnovationfund/
Erasmus Mundus for Gulf Countries
The scholarship scheme is within the framework of the Erasmus Mundus Action 2 Strand 2, Lot4 (Erasmus Mundus programme for the Gulf Countries / a partnership established between 5 European and 7 Gulf Countries’ Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and HEIs Associations).
Erasmus Mundus programme for the Gulf Countries offers comprehensive grants to all selected students and staff which include the following:
- Monthly allowance
- Travel, Accident and Health insurance
- Travel costs to and from country of origin to Host university
- Tuition fees covered by the Programme at Host university (if applicable)
Please go to http://emgulf.eu/ for further information.
Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia
The EMEA is a scholarship programme for students on undergraduate, master, doctoral and post-doctoral level as well as for university staff in academic or administrative positions, financed by the European Commission.
It is open to nationals in Bangladesh, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan who want to study or work at one of the European partner universities.
The EMEA scholarship covers:
1. Round trip flight ticket
2. A monthly subsistence allowance
3. Full insurance coverage - health, travel, accident
4. Tuition fees, if applied at the host university
The on-line application is open between October 15 - December 1, 2011.
Applications may be made through:http://www.emeuropeasia.org/application.
See http://www.emeuropeasia.org/home for further information.
September 2011
Gemma Moore, a PhD student in the School of Sociology, is currently on a month long visit to the Joint Centre for Bioethics (JCB) and the Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (HPME) in the University of Toronto. Gemma’s PhD work concerns the development (or non-development) of bioethical policy, particularly related to stem cell research, in different cultural environments. The Joint Centre for Bioethics is involved in examining issues of ethics and bioethics from a multidisciplinary perspective and includes researchers from the social, behavioural and medical sciences. Gemma was invited to visit the University of Toronto by Professor Fiona Miller, Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation . Researching in both the HPME and the JCB Gemma is investigating the Canadian regulation of, and guidelines for, stem cell research and examining whether it could be used as a model for Irish development of stem cell research regulation. A paper entitled ‘Balancing Biomedical Research and Ethics: What can Ireland learn from Canadian Stem Cell Research Policy?’ based on the findings of her research in Toronto and in UCD, will be delivered at the end of her visit.
May 2011
16 May 2011: Graduate Research Symposium, 2011: The symposium is jointly organised by the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business and the UCD College of Human Sciences Graduate School. The Graduate Research Symposium will be held at the UCD Michael Smurfit School of Business Campus in Blackrock on the 16 May 2011 from 8:45am to 5pm.
Graduate Research Symposium 2011 Programme (pdf.)
31 May 2011: The Dublin Kapuscinski Lecture – 'Climate Change and Development' on 31st May 2011 at 5-7pm in the UCD John Hume Global Ireland Institute.
Keynote Lecture: Professor Dirk Messner
Professor Messner is the Director of the German Development Institute, Bonn, Professor of Political Science at the University Duisburg- Essen and a Member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU).
Jan Szczycinski (UNDP Bratislava Regional Centre) will chair
A panel discussion will follow, chaired by Prof. Patrick Paul Walsh (UCD Chair of International Development Studies).
Panellists include Francis Jacobs, (Head of the European Parliament Office in Ireland), Cliona Sharkey, (Trócaire, Environmental
Justice Policy Officer), Tara Shine, (Head of Research and Development, Mary Robinson Climate Justice Foundation, Joseph K.Assan, (TCD-UCD MDP Lecturer in Development Practice) and Frank Convery , (UCD Earth Sciences Institute).
The lecture series offers citizens of the European Union an unprecedented opportunity to learn and discuss development, and issues related to development cooperation.
Additional Information on the Dublin Kapuscinski Lecture (pdf.)
December 2010
Students on the PhD Programme in Quantitative Social Sciences are presenting their research at the GREP QSS Conference on 7 December 2010 at the UCD Geary Institute. The conference will take place from 9:30 to 1pm. For registration or further information, please email: christina.griessler@ucd.ie
Everybody welcome.
Please click here for the conference programme.
November 2010
Ireland in crisis?
A group of PhD students from the School of Sociology have decided to take action and connect with other PhDs and early stage researchers across the human sciences in Ireland. Their intention is to establish a series of seminars where ideas can be exchanged, make connections with others, encourage collaboration and develop their community. This is organised in association with UCD School of Sociology and UCD Social Science Research Centre.
The first seminar in this series entitled "Labour market in crisis" is on Friday 21 January 2011. Other seminars are Catholicism in crisis (4 February 2011), Migration in crisis (18 February 2011), Education in crisis (4 March 2011), Policing in crisis (25 March 2011), Democracy in crisis (15 April 2011) and Health in crisis (20 April 2011). For more information go to http://ciisn.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/190/
Everybody is welcome.
Tree survey
One of the College of Human Sciences' Ad Astra scholars, Tine Ningal from the School of Geography, Planning & Environmental Policy has just catalogued Dublin's trees between the Grand and Royal Canals. This is the first time that there's ever been a comprehensive survey of trees in the city. For more information on his unique inventory, go to UCD News
"Society: Rest in Peace?"
A masterclass hosted by the Social Science Research Centre entitled "Society: Rest in Peace?" will be held on Tuesday 9 November by Visiting Professor Anthony Elliott of Flinders University Australia. Early registration is advised and more information is available at http://www.ucd.ie/ssrc/events.htm
September 2010
The new academic year commences on Monday 13 September. For more information on registration, fees, orientation etc. please go to http://www.ucd.ie/students/index.html
July 2010
The College of Human Sciences is delighted with the recently announced results of the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions (PRTLI5). The College is successful in obtaining €3 million for the joint UCD-TCD PhD programme in Economics and Politics as well as the PhD programme in Earth & Natural Sciences based in UCD Earth Systems Institute. The College's success is reflective on the strong cooperation between the Schools and Departments concerned. This is further evidence of the ongoing success of College of Human Sciences' Graduate School.
Economics and Political Science (PhD)
This structured PhD programme will harness the research and mentoring capacity of over fifty economists and political scientists in exploring the economic, political and public policy response to the global crisis, as well as in the tools of econometrics and specialist statistical design.
EconPol consolidates the research and doctoral training of UCD and TCD (in the core disciplines of Economics and Political Science) with the policy focus of ESRI to create an international research PhD programme that reaches out to other universities and third-level institutions. Through the Innovation Academy students of EconPol will be trained to work within an evolving business culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across a range of sectors.
Earth Systems Institute (PhD)
ESI and its partners will bring together research leaders, policy makers and industry to create an interdisciplinary, innovation-focused, structured PhD programme to draw together a wide range of relevant disciplines and expertise at UCD (e.g. agriculture, biofuels, climate and simulation modelling, environmental biology, risk analysis and prediction) and its partner institutions.
Training will prepare the students for industry, academia and government agencies where they will contribute to the emergence of a global reputation, the national deployment of green technology and sustaining the competitiveness of Irish industry, including AgriFood.
Jean Blondel Prize 2010
Paul Gill, a PhD graduate from the UCD School of Politics and International Relations, has been awarded the 2010 Jean Blondel Prize for the best political science thesis in the EU. His doctoral thesis entitled "The Dynamics of Suicide Bombing in Campaigns of Political Violence" examined the underlying individual and organisational motivations behind suicide bombing and why constituencies of people give support to the perpetrators.
The Jean Blondel Prize is judged by a committee drawn from the editorial board of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). The Consortium is an independent, scholarly association with approximately 350 European institutional members and associate members in over 40 countries. Together, the members form a network of thousands of individual political scientists, international relations and European studies specialists.
Paul Gill completed his doctoral thesis in 2009 under the supervision of Dr Tobias Theiler, UCD School of Politics & International Relations. The work was funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities & Social Sciences (IRCHSS).
UCD-TCD Masters in Development Practice
Former President of Ireland and current President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative and Chancellor of Trinity College Dublin, Mary Robinson, speaks about the UCD-TCD Masters in Development Practice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9z0HkBjmc
April 2010
The College of Human Sciences Graduate School would like to congratulate Dr Helen Keyes of the School of Psychology. Dr Keyes is our first Ad Astra scholar to graduate with a PhD. In September 2006, the Ad Astra programme was set up in order to attract applicants of the highest academic standards to participate in structured PhD programmes. She was one of a group of 21 scholars awarded scholarships in the College of Human Sciences. The title of Dr Keyes' thesis was "Representing myself: Studies in self-face perception", researching on how the brain perceives our own face as being "special" - it distinguishes the self-face from other faces at a very early stage of visual processing, it looks for traces of the self-face in other people's faces, and it is expert at recognising the self-face in a holistic and part-based way, relative to other familiar faces.
The College of Human Sciences Graduate School is hosting an open week from Monday 12 April through to Friday 16 April in the main concourse of the Newman Building. Students are invited to drop by to find out more about our taught and research graduate programmes for academic year 2010-11.
March 2010
Call for applications to the Erasmus Mundus Joint European Masters in International Migration & Social Cohesion (MISOCO), full scholarships for EU students are available. For more information go to www.misoco.org
September 2009
Registration for students in the Graduate Diploma in Education will commence the last week in August. All other graduate students will register on 3 September. For more information go to:
http://www.ucd.ie/students/registration.html
May 2009
On Monday 19 May, the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies hosts a symposium entitled "Situating "Irishness": Fashioning Identity in Time and Space" which is designed to present the work by young researchers at the institute. More information is available at http://www.ucd.ie/johnhume/thematicareas/evite/irishness/index.html
April 2009
Call for applications to the a new round of the Graduate Research & Innovation Fund is now open. This is only open to refgistered graduate research students within the College of Human Sciences. Closing date for applications is 24 April 2009.
The College of Human Sciences lecture by Professor Seyla Benhabib of Yale University entitled "Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin: International law and the shadow of totalitarianism" on Thursday 23 April at 6 pm in the William Jefferson Clinton Auditorium.
March 2009
The College of Human Sciences Graduate School is running an Information Week from Monday 2 March through to Friday 6 March in the main foyer of the Newman Building. Staff will be available to give information on all taught and research programmes within the College of Human Sciences.
January 20098 January "Conference presentation skills" workship for College of Human Sciences graduate research students. A workshop to provide the opportunity to learn about how best to get your work across to a conference audience. ( http://www.ucd.ie/humansciences/graduateschool/workshops/heading,13529,en.html )
15 January Annual Graduate Research Symposium in the Humanities Institute of Ireland
22 January "Managing references and citing sources" workshop for graduate research students. This workshop provides an introduction to the EndNote citation management software and explains the principles of how to manage your sources and cite them correctly.( http://www.ucd.ie/humansciences/graduateschool/workshops/heading,13529,en.html )
December 2008
Call for papers for the Annual Graduate Research Symposium on Thursday 15 January.
October 2008
Graduate Research & Innovation Fund - Call for applications to the Graduate Research & Innovation Fund is now open. Closing date for applications is 17 November 2008.
The College of Human Sciences Graduate School will host its orientation for graduate research students on 15 October in the Quinn Contemplative Room, Quinn School of Business.
September 2008
Briefing sessions for new incoming PhD students - Friday 19 September at 11 am and Monday 22 September at 5 pm in G213.
The teaching term commences on Monday 8 September 2008
August 2008
Registration opens for students (incoming and continuing) from mid-August. Students will be notified in advance.
